Native Public Health Resilience | HHS 2024 IHS NPHR 0001

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2024 IHS NPHR 0001

Native Public Health Resilience is a discretionary grant program from the Indian Health Service (IHS) designed to strengthen public health infrastructure and readiness in Indian Country by building the capacity of Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs). The central aim is to help eligible Native-serving entities carry out core public health functions more consistently and effectively, while also improving their public health management systems, staffing, and operational capabilities. In practical terms, the program is about moving beyond short-term, crisis-driven responses and supporting the ongoing public health work that helps communities prevent problems, respond faster when threats emerge, and recover more strongly when emergencies or disruptions occur.

A major organizing framework for the program is the 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS), a nationally recognized model that describes what health departments and public health systems should be able to do for their communities. The EPHS has guided public health practice since the 1990s and was revised in 2020 with a stronger emphasis on equity and fair access to the conditions that support health and well-being. The opportunity explicitly links this work to the broader federal public health agenda, including the HHS Healthy People initiatives, which emphasize ensuring that federal, Tribal, state, and local health agencies have the foundational infrastructure needed to deliver essential public health services effectively. Examples of the kinds of activities embedded in the EPHS include monitoring community health status to identify and address health problems, and diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards, which are core to surveillance, outbreak response, and community health assessment.

This funding opportunity is specifically limited to applicants that meet statutory eligibility definitions under 25 U.S.C. 1603. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Indian Tribes (as defined by federal law, including Alaska Native villages and certain Alaska Native entities recognized for federal services), Tribal organizations (as defined through the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, including organizations controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by Tribal governments or democratically elected by the community they serve), and Urban Indian Organizations (nonprofit corporate bodies located in urban centers, governed by an urban Indian controlled board, and structured to maximize participation of Urban Indian communities). For Tribal organizations proposing to serve more than one Tribe, the program notes that each Tribe to be served must approve, and applicants should submit letters of support and/or Tribal Resolutions. For UIOs, proof of nonprofit status such as 501(c)(3) documentation is required, and services under the award must be provided only to eligible Urban Indians living within the urban center where the UIO is located.

From a funding and competition standpoint, the opportunity is listed under CFDA 93.231 and is administered by IHS as a grant. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2024-IHS-NPHR-0001. The posted award ceiling is $400,000, with an estimated 15 awards expected. The application closing date listed for this opportunity is May 14, 2024, and the posting was created on March 14, 2024. Overall, the grant is positioned as an investment in public health capacity and resilience, helping Native communities expand access to essential public health services, improve public health management, and strengthen systems that support physical, mental, social, and spiritual health outcomes for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

• The Indian Health Service in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Native Public Health Resilience" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.231.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-14.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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